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As of January 1 2018, a new long-term interest rate for loans granted by the Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social or BNDES), known as TLP, is in force.

In furtherance of the Iosco principles, the Colombian Securities Market Self-Regulatory Organisation (SRO) has adopted a number of compliance-related certification requirements and is about to issue a comprehensive review of self-regulation guidelines for the foreign exchange (FX) market.

The Agreement Abolishing the Requirement for the Legalisation of Foreign Public Documents (Hague Convention on the Apostille ) (Convention) was signed in the Hague, Netherlands, on October 5 1961. The Convention aimed to specify the process for legalising documents through a consulate in one of the contracting states for use in any of the other contracting states.

In recent years, international email fraud cases have been occurring all over the world, where persons in the guise of trading partners contact companies by email using email addresses and domain names that closely resemble the official ones of such actual trading partners. Typically, the emails give false notices and instructions stating that the bank accounts for the remittance of purchase prices, for example, have changed. There are some cases where Japanese bank accounts are designated as the new remittance accounts in such notices and instructions.

In February, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a 2014 decision that had found Jordan-based Arab Bank liable for intentionally supporting the terrorist group Hamas. The original decision was made after the bank was tried by a Brooklyn-based jury for providing financing to the group, which has been linked to several militant attacks against Israel in the early 2000s. It was the first time in the US that a bank was held liable civilly for violating the Anti-Terrorism Act, which lets US citizens seek damages from international terrorism.

Overcoming misguided criticism regarding their level of transparency and punitive character, these tools have proven essential to resolution

Alex Baker, director of competition advisory boutique Fingleton Associates, finds issues with the UK’s targeted merger strategy and its wide margins of discretion

Under the 1977 legislation, where a party deals on its written standard terms of business exclusions or limitations of that party’s liability must pass the Act’s reasonableness test

Regulators are getting wise to cryptocurrencies

Gönenç Gürkaynak and Öznur İnanılır, ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law